Inside the Sundance Labs: Alia Shawkat On Recharging Her Acting Batteries

As Maeby on Arrested Development, Alia Shawkat had what's typically a luxury for an actor: the relative security of a stable television gig ("relative," since Fox infamously jerked the acclaimed comedy around on its schedule and made renewal a constant battle). Since the series ended, she's booked parts in Drew Barrymore's Whip It! and the Dakota Fanning/Kristen Stewart-toplined The Runaways, but as she tells Movieline, the industry's bottom line focus on box office was starting to wear her out. What changed things? The Sundance Labs process, where she got to workshop Elgin James's Goodnight Moon (in which she'll eventually be starring alongside Juno Temple).